Doesn’t matter if they’re dead and their core supporters get discouraged. There are a lot of posts that are just by a dozen or so people with little engagement. That is not sustainable.
It doesn’t have to be active like reddit right? Or even like Lemmy was around the blackouts? A community can remain active even without federating with lemmy.world. People can still sign up for Beehaw and see their posts from other instances (like feddit.uk or the canadian one).
But mod tools have not improved. Anyone could technically still join lemmy.world and troll them which was one of their concerns.
Doesn’t matter if they’re dead and their core supporters get discouraged. There are a lot of posts that are just by a dozen or so people with little engagement. That is not sustainable.
Yes it is. I’ve been on forums with ~20 or so active people and it lasted for years.
I bet you weren’t posting 100 articles a day with a comment or few each.
It doesn’t have to be active like reddit right? Or even like Lemmy was around the blackouts? A community can remain active even without federating with lemmy.world. People can still sign up for Beehaw and see their posts from other instances (like feddit.uk or the canadian one).